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Show OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE JAPANESE NEW 10EK Oct The East and West N.ews bureau ton ght announced that t had rece ed a able message from Tokio as follows ' Tok o Oct 7 The war depart n ent issues the follow ng off c al an nouncement After exao n ng the reports re ce ed from arous sources t is in ferred that among the enemy s war sh ps in the- bay of K aochow n addi t on to the Kormoran two other gun boats have been sunk as nothing has been seen of them Biuce October 3 On October 6 a Japanese regiment made a u dn ght advance along the Shantung ra lwa as far as Chilian There about thirty locomotnes in addit on to some 00 passenger and, fre ght cars fell in to the hands of the Japanese sold ers A German gunboat probably the lit s was ser ouslv damaged bv the shots from the Japanese field guns on October 4 She fled towed by two other boats into the bay of Kiao chow but sank shortly afterward At present there are three gunboats w th n the bay including the Kaiserin Ehz abetb When the Japanese squadron occu p ed on October 6 the Jalu t island one of the Marshall arch pelago they found so German warsh ps there or on the way After destroy ng all equ p ment for m 1 tary use and seiz ng am mumt on the bluejackets liberated a Japanese who had been arrested and released an Engl sh merchant vessel wh ch had been captured |